inula
See also: Inula
English edit
Etymology edit
From Latin inula. Compare elecampane.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
inula (countable and uncountable, plural inulas)
- Any of several plants of the genus Inula, such as elecampane.
- 1977, Alistair Horne, A Savage War of Peace, New York: Review Books, published 2006, page 45:
- In springtime the ruins are a blaze of contrapuntal colour: wild gladioli of magenta, bright yellow inulas and spiky acanthus thrust up among sarcophagi carpeted with tiny blue saxifrage and sprawled over by convolvulus with great pink trumpets.
- The dried root of such a plant used as a stimulant.
Translations edit
plant of the genus Inula
dried root
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Further reading edit
- Inula on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Inula on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Anagrams edit
Italian edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
inula f (plural inule)
Anagrams edit
Latin edit
Alternative forms edit
- enula (Medieval Latin)
Etymology edit
From Ancient Greek ἰνάω (ináō, “to purify”, literally “send forth”), from Proto-Indo-European *Hish₂-, *His-neh₂-, which could be related to ἰαίνω (iaínō, “to heat, warm”).[1]
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈi.nu.la/, [ˈɪnʊɫ̪ä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈi.nu.la/, [ˈiːnulä]
Noun edit
inula f (genitive inulae); first declension
- Any of several plants of the genus Inula, including elecampane.
Declension edit
First-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | inula | inulae |
Genitive | inulae | inulārum |
Dative | inulae | inulīs |
Accusative | inulam | inulās |
Ablative | inulā | inulīs |
Vocative | inula | inulae |
Descendants edit
References edit
- “inula”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “inula”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), “ἰνάω”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 592
- ^ (de) Bruno Vonarburg, Homöotanik: Blütenreicher Sommer, Georg Thieme Verlag, 2005, p. 273.